Paralellism between Hebrew and African Religion: A Case Study of the Nandi People of Kenya
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 5
Abstract
All religions agree that there is something deeply wrong with mankind, that human lives are not what they were meant to be. That human beings are alienated from the source of meaning and value. For the great religions of the Semitic origin - Judaism, Christianity and Islam – the basic human problem is moral (Rice, 1985), it is what human beings have done. Every religion describes a way of overcoming this separation and achieving what man has lost. The “Hebrew sanctuary and its services” a sub-set of Hebrew religion spelt out in the Old Testament which is a prophecy dramatizing the only means of Redemption through the Messiah to come in symbols (Musvosvi, 2001) seem to have some parallelism with the practices surrounding the “Nandi male initiation ceremonies” today – a sub-set of Nandi religion(African). The objective of this study was torelate the “Hebrew Sanctuary and its services” with the “Nandi male initiation ceremonies” on such aspects as the construction of their sacred buildings (Hebrew Sanctuary verses the “House of rites”(Kootabtumdo) among the Nandi); the items used in the two sacred buildings and the role of religious specialists in each of the two religious building.In this article the researcher will describe both religions in order to relate for clarity sake. Description will begin from that of the Hebrew followed by that of the Nandi. In so doing, the researcher will give a structure of each sacred building and then a table to show the extent of parallelisms.
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Wilson K. Kiprono
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